Open Source Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Open Source
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 55 81
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 -11
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.28% 0.78% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.90% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £438 £569 £563
90th Percentile - £625 £600
South East median daily rate £565 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +13.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

Open Source falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 334 443 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.35% 86.02% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 314 565
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £250 £275 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £638
90th Percentile £621 £635 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 28 34
10th Percentile £16.27 £13.25 £24.14
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £44.70
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.63 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +3.25% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £76.53
90th Percentile - £77.80 £78.10
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -61.99% +9.11% +83.79%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Open Source relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Open Source job vacancy trend in Surrey

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Open Source.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Open Source

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Open Source.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Open Source

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 3 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines +5 1 £425 -32.00%
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes